Classical August 2024

Many still see Louis Cole foremost as a drummer. nothing, Cole's fifth album and his third on Brainfeeder – released on 9th August 2024 – is bound to change that impression. Collaborating with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley, he rejected the well-trodden path to orchestral renditions of his greatest hits and instead opted to compose a suite of brand new music for this project – bigger, bolder, and more expansive than ever. Yes, there are nods to his GRAMMY-nominated 2022 album Quality Over Opinion, but 15 of the 17 tracks included here are brand new. This is jazz. This is classical music. It's got that funk. You'll hear synths and loops. You'll hear a band and live drumming. There's a world class orchestra playing. Some pieces are ultra concise, whereas the sprawling ‘Doesn’t Matter’ surpasses the ten minute mark. To Cole, jazz has always been the one place where you can really let go of all expectations – on nothing, he is putting the music where his mouth is.

The symphony orchestra may have its roots in the eighteenth century, but it’s having quite a moment in the twenty-first. On 30th August 2024 Platoon will release Dalia’s Mixtape - an album presenting some of the freshest sounds in contemporary music, each piece hand-picked by conductor Dalia Stasevska to broaden our understanding of what a large group of acoustic instruments can do. The ten tracks of Dalia’s Mixtape are performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and have been released individually over 6 months, each with a supporting podcast.

After moving from New York to London during the 2020 lockdown, Peter started collaborating with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He recorded his Naxos album "A Journey" with them as a conductor and piano soloist, and just recently (September 2022), he conducted the RPO in a Dolby Atmos/Dolby Vision video recording of three Stravinsky ballets (Rite of Spring, Petroushka, Firebird) for the OnAir video streaming company. Collaboration with a prominent UK label Orchid Classics/Blue Cloud starts in August 2024 with a release of yet another solo piano album, Aria.

Many still see Louis Cole foremost as a drummer. nothing, Cole's fifth album and his third on Brainfeeder – released on 9th August 2024 – is bound to change that impression. Collaborating with the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley, he rejected the well-trodden path to orchestral renditions of his greatest hits and instead opted to compose a suite of brand new music for this project – bigger, bolder, and more expansive than ever. Yes, there are nods to his GRAMMY-nominated 2022 album Quality Over Opinion, but 15 of the 17 tracks included here are brand new. This is jazz. This is classical music. It's got that funk. You'll hear synths and loops. You'll hear a band and live drumming. There's a world class orchestra playing. Some pieces are ultra concise, whereas the sprawling ‘Doesn’t Matter’ surpasses the ten minute mark. To Cole, jazz has always been the one place where you can really let go of all expectations – on nothing, he is putting the music where his mouth is.

The symphony orchestra may have its roots in the eighteenth century, but it’s having quite a moment in the twenty-first. On 30th August 2024 Platoon will release Dalia’s Mixtape - an album presenting some of the freshest sounds in contemporary music, each piece hand-picked by conductor Dalia Stasevska to broaden our understanding of what a large group of acoustic instruments can do. The ten tracks of Dalia’s Mixtape are performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and have been released individually over 6 months, each with a supporting podcast.

After moving from New York to London during the 2020 lockdown, Peter started collaborating with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He recorded his Naxos album "A Journey" with them as a conductor and piano soloist, and just recently (September 2022), he conducted the RPO in a Dolby Atmos/Dolby Vision video recording of three Stravinsky ballets (Rite of Spring, Petroushka, Firebird) for the OnAir video streaming company. Collaboration with a prominent UK label Orchid Classics/Blue Cloud starts in August 2024 with a release of yet another solo piano album, Aria.

23rd August 2024 sees the release of The Wheel of Life – the new album from globally recognized world music ensemble A Moving Sound from Taiwan, and New York based Grammy-winning string quartet ETHEL.

23rd August 2024 sees the release of The Wheel of Life – the new album from globally recognized world music ensemble A Moving Sound from Taiwan, and New York based Grammy-winning string quartet ETHEL.

Regarded today as one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, the Ukrainian-born Mischa Elman. Elman made his first records at the age of 15, and at the age of 19 – following his triumphant Carnegie Hall début – he made his first recordings for The Victor Talking Machine Company. Elman – along with Kreisler and Heifetz – made up the triumvirate of violinists that dominated record sales in the 1920s and 30s.

As a skilled practitioner of his craft, Joseph Labitzky gained global acclaim for his waltz and polka compositions. He was a conductor and orchestra manager who transformed the musical entertainment of the spa in Karlsbad (today: Karlovy Vary) into a spa orchestra, later to evolve into the present-day Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra through his efforts and the contributions of his son, August. His programming expertise engaged audiences with a wide variety of light music, operas, symphonies, choral-orchestral pieces, and chamber music. The inherent invitation to dance within his musical creations is unmistakable!